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The chapter offers an overview of different approaches to the problem of harmonization of work and family, going from the U. Beck´s theory of individualization of the society to contemporary feminist theories.

The article presents the sociological theory of trust of Polish sociologist Piotr Sztompka. In his book Trust: A Sociological Theory (1999) Sztompka offers the summary of existing sociological concepts of trust and attemps to clarify the notion of trust and to categorize it. Fina...

The objective of the book is to inform social sector practitioners, policy makers, government officials and analysts about the specific features of housing market operation and discuss the role of housing policy in general and in the Czech Republic in particular. In the second se...

This study explores political awareness of Czech citizens from the point of view of both its distribution within the society, its dimensionality and sources, and its effect on political attitudes and their constraints. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and...

Contribution was focused on the transformation of the Czech public views on the past and the present regime on many other aspects of private and public life. Based on the results of sociological surveys, among others, notes that there is no uniform or consistent memory of the nat...

This study reports on the results of the study “The Image of Science in Czech Public Opinion”, which was conducted by the Public Opinion Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in February 2006 as a part of “Our S...

This study explores political awareness of Czech citizens from the point of view of both its distribution within the society, its dimensionality and sources, and its effect on political attitudes and their constraints. The study shows that Czech citizens know most about local and...

The article focuses on the academic discourse of social cohesion. Two degrees of universality with respect to the use of the concept of social cohesion are identified and analyzed: 1) the creation of social order in general; 2) particular mechanisms of social cohesion. In conclus...

This paper aims at reviewing concepts and theories of political participation. First part presents classical Verba’s and Barnes and Kaase’s definitions of political participation. Subsequently it shows how the repertoire of political activities has changed since the t...

The goal of this text is to offer a systematic analysis of political activismin the Czech Republic. The article fi rst differentiates between and theoreticallydefi nes three types of political activism. These are old, new, and radicaltypes of activism. The fi rst is primarily rep...